Mule is a MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs 19. (Emacs 20 includes
most of the features of MULE, with improvements.) It can handle not only
ASCII characters (7 bits) and ISO Latin-1 (8 bits), but also Japanese,
Chinese, Korean (16 bits) coded in the ISO2022 standard and its variants
(e.g. EUC, Compound Text). For Chinese there is support for both GB and
Big5. In addition, Thai (based on TIS620) and Vietnamese (based on VISCII
and VSCII) are also supported. A text buffer in Mule can contain a mixture
of characters from these languages. To input any of these characters, you
can use various input methods provided by Mule itself. In addition, if you
use Mule under some terminal emulator (kterm, cxterm, or exterm), you can
use any input methods supported by the emulator.
MULE is available via anonymous FTP from sh.wide.ad.jp in /JAPAN/mule
[133.4.11.11] (Japan only), or from etlport.etl.go.jp [192.31.197.99]
in /pub/mule.